Gas supply starts recovering as LNG transfer resumes: Petrobangla
Adverse weather at sea had disrupted transfer at the LNG terminal yesterday, reducing overall gas supply and causing some inconvenience to consumers.
Gas supply began recovering this morning (25 September) after falling sharply the previous day as adverse weather disrupted LNG transfer at the Moheshkhali floating terminal in Cox's Bazar.
Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation, better known as Petrobangla, in a short message shared the latest data, showing that said gas supply was returning to normal as LNG transfer from a cargo to the floating terminal resumed.
Petrobangla said yesterday evening that adverse weather at sea had disrupted LNG transfer at the terminal, reducing overall gas supply and causing some inconvenience to consumers.
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According to Petrobangla sources, daily gas demand stands at 3.8 billion cubic feet (bcf), while supply had been maintained at 2.65-2.70 bcf for an extended period. Supply stood at 2.6 bcf on Wednesday before falling to 2.2 bcf on Thursday evening, a decline of 400 million cubic feet, reports Prothom Alo.
At 10am on Friday, supply rose to 2.34 bcf.
Imported LNG accounts for 35-40% of the country's total gas supply. Two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) operate offshore in Moheshkhali to regasify imported LNG and feed it into the national pipeline network.
One is operated by US-based Excelerate Energy and the other by local company Summit. Together, the two terminals can supply up to 1.05 bcf of LNG daily.
Although a new LNG cargo arrived, adverse weather prevented its transfer to the terminal yesterday. LNG supply subsequently fell to 590 million cubic feet from around 1 bcf in recent days, according to Petrobangla.
Supply rose to 730 million cubic feet this morning and will be gradually increased further, Petrobangla said.
Yesterday, rough weather in the Bay of Bengal disrupted LNG transfer at Moheshkhali, cutting national gas supply to 2,301 mmcfd at 6pm on 24 September, including 686 mmcfd of RLNG.
Earlier, Gas supply had recovered to 2,610 mmcfd on 15 September after the Excelerate-operated FSRU resumed operations following a fire in July. The terminal had faced another disruption in August after running out of LNG.
Petrobangla said supply would return to normal once weather conditions improve.
